According with Wisden Cricketers Almanac store, cricket is a relatively unknown discipline in Chile, but in countries like India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is one of the most popular and lucrative sports and meet millions of people, mainly in Asia and Oceania.
It is of English origin and dates back about the sixteenth century, but colonies of Great Britain are the ones that took the sport and is practiced mostly today.
The popularity of cricket makes it the second most played sport in the world, second only to football.This is because the countries that practice it as a national sport (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives) together account for about one quarter of the world population, reaching 1,500 million inhabitants.
There are different types of games, including: ODI lasting about eight hours and used for the World.There is also a Test Match (Set of elite and lasts several days), Indoor (played in winter) and T20, which lasts nearly three hours and with which he intends to join the Olympics. Starting today, the world of cricket assumes its maximum party started and will end on April 2 with a new champion.Compete in the inaugural match selections from India and Bangladesh, two of the host countries, which together with Sri Lanka, are the organizers of this edition.
According with Wisden Cricketers Almanac store, the World Cup cricket, played since 1975, takes place every four years and is the fourth biggest sporting event in the world, behind the football World Cup, the Olympics and World Cup rugby.The previous edition was played in 2007 in the West Indies, reached a television audience close to 2,200 million viewers.
In this tenth edition involves 14 countries, divided into two groups.In the A comprises the champion of the last three world, Australia, Canada, Kenya, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, while in B are Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Holland, South Africa and the West Indies.
The money that drives this sport are very high.As an example, Sony Entertainment Television has won the rights to broadcast the tournament in India, the largest in the world, in just over one billion dollars.In addition, the league average salary of a player is three millions of U.S. currency.
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According with Wisden Cricketers Almanac store, Chile is the reigning South American Sub 13 "When it comes to cricket in Chile, no one knows what it means or what is played somewhere in the country," said Matthew Callaghan, CEO of Cricket Chile.
This sport, unknown to many, has made significant achievements was winning last year’s Sub American Sub 13, which was developed in our country.He also won the award for best development of the specialty in Latin America, an award that is awarded by the ICC (International Cricket Council).
The country has eight clubs to play the sport, which are located only in Santiago and the Fifth Region.
Today, Chile is in the Third American Division and in March the adult team will play up the option for that category."The goal is that Chile is consolidated at the international level," says Callaghan.